Tip leads deputies to grow house

Published 10:55 am, Monday, March 31, 2014

One suspect has been arrested in a criminal investigation of a grow house discovered at an undisclosed location in Harris County .

After receiving tips from users of the iWatchHarrisCounty app, investigators with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area major drug squad raided a location in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, where they found 392 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $1.4 million, and 66 pounds of harvested marijuana with a value estimated at $231,000.

At least one arrest has been made in the ongoing criminal investigation.

Over 70 tips submitted by iWatchHarrisCounty users have been cleared by arrest by HCSO investigators.